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The Joker's Nice to Harley

To a Given Quantity of "Nice". The Joker has stolen Myxzptlk's powers to effectively become God. And once the Joker has overpowered Superman, Batman and even the likes of Darkseid, he gets bored and decides to end the universe. Harley, one of the few who somehow managed to escape the Joker's reality warping powers, expresses her concerns over the end of everything with her Puddin'.

One of the best portrayals of Joker I ever saw---and Myxy, for that matter. For some reason I didn't pick up the original and didn't stumble on how GOOD it was till much later.

Joker almost got omnipotent several times---once in the Injustice League sequence in Morrison's JLA, once when he got the Spectre's powers---but "Emperor Joker" was one of the best Joker stories EVER...

And it ran in the Superman books!

Nothing's scarier than a madman being in charge of reality, but it was truly funny at times also, in Joker's warped way.

tbh I think in any incarnation he'd be able to kill Harley if he wanted to. It's just that in other versions of him, he'd be more likely to make it slow and painful.

I mean, the way I usually see him done, he doesn't care about her, if at all. But in this, he seems like he does. It's still hard to ship them because, like you said, he killed her, but it's marginally easier than usual.

I never liked when writers wrote their relationship like Joker doesn't give a crap about her. Of course he doesn't love her in healthy, selfless way, but he does care. The whole reason he tried to kill her for the first time in old DCU, was because he started to care.

If Harley ever died, I always though perfect reaction for Joker would be, if he at first was like (not angry, just annoyed) "Stop faking idiot, we still have job to do!", Then, after some one would explain to him, that she's dead, he would be like "Wait. She's actually dead? Huh..." He wouldn't be sad, but he would be confused.

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